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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 3rd grade child recently changed schools and her new school started departmentalizing for students in 3rd-5th. So my child does reading in the morning with one teacher and then in the afternoon they do math and science a different teacher. I asked about conferences and was told that the morning teacher would be my child's homeroom teacher and then during conferences we would only meet with the morning teacher the afternoon teacher would offer notes.

Well we just had conferences. The morning teacher offered a lot of work samples and really good insights into how my child is doing in their class. The afternoon teacher did not give any kind of notes and just gave us a printout of my child's MAP scores, which I've already seen. This was just really unhelpful and it was just frustrating that we got literally nothing from the math teacher. I want to contact the math teacher and just find out what's going on and then potentially share with administration just how disappointed I was in this approach to conferences especially since my kid is struggling a bit more in math and I have gotten zero work samples or tests or anything back to understanding why they are struggling

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Logistically, its not possible in a departmentalized situation to have a conference with both teachers. I do think its a fair expectation that the teacher shares more data points than a MAP score, but a separate conference can be a lot, especially when schools don't allocate the time for it..[/quote]

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